IAT’s Zhiqing SOA Architecture Wins 2025 ZHILU Award for Technological Innovation

Source: Author: Date:2025-09-01 Read:92

In the recent 3rd 2025 ZHILU Award Ceremony, IAT Auto’s self-developed "Zhiqing SOA Architecture Platform" stood out from over a hundred competing tech companies after multiple rounds of rigorous evaluation and won the "China Automotive Intelligent Innovation Technology Award." 

This marks the second time that IAT Auto has been recognized by this authoritative industry award, following the honor received in 2024 for its Zhihang 800V Electric Drive System. It fully demonstrates the company’s sustained leading strength and profound technological expertise in the field of automotive intelligent innovation.

As a leading product developed by IAT Auto for the era of "software-defined vehicles," the Zhiqing SOA Architecture Platform adopts an innovative service-oriented architecture design. It provides a comprehensive solution covering SOA architecture development processes and methodologies, service design specifications, scenario function libraries, service libraries, basic platforms, and system software. 

Through a layered and decoupled software architecture design, the platform achieves technical innovations such as lightweight scenario features, modularized global service interfaces, and plug-and-play device compatibility. It also supports multiple service communication protocols and enables service-oriented interconnection with IoT cloud platforms.

Speaking of technological innovation, the platform has achieved multiple breakthroughs: at the SOA architecture design level, it realizes lightweight advancements in scenario functions and software, and innovatively integrates vehicle-cloud connectivity with IoT cloud platform services.

At the software architecture design level, it creates a layered and decoupled architecture for rapid development and iteration, developing lightweight data interface middleware for the data layer and virtual device layer middleware that supports hardware plug-and-play; at the software development level, it provides a modular and standardized SDK integrated development solution; at the testing and validation level, it offers interactive validation experience.

The platform not only empowers agile software development, helping OEMs reduce development costs, shorten R&D cycles, and effectively enhance vehicle market competitiveness, but also drives innovative changes in the industry’s business models. It facilitates a shift from traditional point-to-point supply-demand cooperation to an ecosystem model involving multiple parties such as OEMs, Tier 1/2 suppliers, and tech companies.

At present, the Zhiqing SOA Architecture Platform has gained broad industry recognition and achieved industrial implementation, with deep collaborations established with multiple OEMs and industry institutions. In the future, IAT will serve as a software system supplier, offering full-stack solutions from software platforms to cloud applications, achieving continuous value creation through an innovative business model of "software supply + services."

The TAI-AI vertical creative rendering application for transportation vehicles, developed by IAT, was also shortlisted for the same award. The nomination of these two projects fully demonstrates IAT’s deep accumulation and continuous innovation capabilities in intelligent connected technology. 

Moving forward, IAT will continue to deepen the R&D and application of the SOA architecture platform, working with industry partners to enrich the "software-defined vehicle" concept and inject new momentum into the intelligent transformation to help upgrade China’s automotive industry.

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